2016 Trade Deadline Rumors and Moves

[auyushu]

And on BJ, it's just too hard to know. It's possible that including him was done with a very long-term view in that we were looking to save money to use in the international market. Hard to say.

This doesn't really fly though given that we took on salary for 2015 and 2016 well after the BJ trade, and we would have had no clue we would have been doing that. We added all the money in the Touki trade for 2015 and then took on 10+ mil for 2016 in the Chris Johnson trade. We also added Olivera's salary after the BJ trade as well. None of those moves would really have been predictable when we moved BJ. BJ's 2017 salary obviously wasn't an issue for 2017 since we added almost that much for Kemp. We clearly weren't trying too hard to save money in the international market with all those moves to add money going on.